Linux group to buy 22 patents from Microsoft

[ganeshbala]

Linux group to buy 22 patents from Microsoft

A group of Linux proponents will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft in an effort to defend distributors of the open-source OS against the ongoing threat of patent litigation from the software giant.

The Open Invention Network (OIN), whose members include IBM and Red Hat, is set to purchase a set of 22 patents once held by Microsoft from Allied Security Trust (AST).

They include Linux patents marketed and sold by Microsoft, some of which were previously held by Silicon Graphics.

[prem441]

hai.....can any one help me how to do the driver programming in Linux?
i am facing lot of problems.........

[Sudhakar]

Hey prem, if you are good at C programming and Microprocessor Programming.

Then it will be really good to write to touch even linux kernel. 

[oliviathn]

I am very good lecturer in collage, taking so many computer programmers practical and theoretical. Driver programming in Linux is very hard to understand, but I hope this link will helps you and watching clips is very good way to understand computer languages.

Link of driver programming in Linux
youtube.com/watch?v=1hG3a1UnJ70#ws]Linux Device Drivers-Intro

[jonnyj99]

Groups of Linux is a mechanism to manage a collection of computer system users.Local Linux User Group meets to provide support and  or organize presentations and home users to Linux, especially for inexperienced users. These include patents Linux market and sold by Microsoft, some of which were previously held by Silicon Graphics.

[ronny]

Microsoft has some alleged patent violation in their attempts to quell some Linux-based applications.The Open Invention Network, said that the patents were purchased from Microsoft by an entity known as the Allied Security Trust. Open Invention Network was going to buy a number of Linux-related patents that Microsoft has sold the rights earlier this year.